Black Bottom Cupcakes

But anything with chocolate chips mixed in automatically moves the yumminess up a notch, right.

For the topping …

Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, egg and banana together and then stir in the chips.

Jump on in there little ones. Get nice and cozy.

For the cake layer you’ll need…

Flour, cocoa, sugar, bananas, soda, salt oil and vanilla.

Sift the dry ingredients together and then add the wet. Easy as pie. Or Cupcake.

Plop. Pureed bananas look kinda gross, don’t they?

Thank goodness it all gets blended.

I used these lovely parchment paper baking cups. (Found at Hobby Lobby)

And I also used these freestanding muffin cups. (Found at cakeart.com)

Why? Because I’m indecisive. I may not have mentioned it before, but I have a problem making decisions. Even something as simple as cupcake liners. It seems like I can never bake all my cupcakes in the same papers. (Unless I’m taking them somewhere of course.) I know. Kinda weird. But I can never decide which to use or worry that I picked the wrong one and the one I didn’t pick is going to look better. So, I’ll sneak a few options in there to satisfy my compulsion.

But anyway, when you’re ready to fill your liners, just use a scoop to get evenly filled papers.

It’s so funny you say that about the liners, because I always use a minimum of 3 kinds when I bake because I can never decide which ones are the prettiest. It’s so annoying! I wish I could just pick one and have nice, uniform cupcakes.

Oh my goodness, I can totally relate! Last night I spent three and a half hours debating which recipe (out of two options, really) I want to try today. Same is with cupcake liners. I have these very pretty pastel-coloured silicone ones, but I also like using cupcake liners made out of paper and every time I make cupcakes I spent the most part of my time debating which ones I use.
I’m certainly going to try your recipe (as soon as I figured out which liners to use) – thanks for sharing!

Can these be made without the bananas? My husband doesn’t like them…I would assume I need to add something else to make up for them?
They look delicious as is…but I don’t really need to be the only one eating them! lol

I’ve been looking for the first “back to school” after school snack to make my kids today after February vacation ended. This is it!! And, bananas….that makes it healthy. ;0
Jenhttp://www.thewholebagofchips.com

Crazy…I LITERALLY just said to my boyfriend, “I let the bananas get too ripe, I need to find a new banana recipe to try.” You read my mind bakerella, happen to have all the ingredients already in my pantry/frig, gonna try it out in a few.

My family loves these! We make them in the mini cupcake pan and then they have to go in the fridge because that’s just the way it’s done in my family! I have never tried it with the banana added in though. Perhaps next time we’ll try half without banana and half with it to see which we love more. These never last more than a few days in the house and when taken to a party they never even see the late arriving guests!!!

“If you’re normal” hehe, made me laugh. I’m joining the nn-normal baking cup clan too because I use at least 3 different types/colors when I bake too. I can never decide whether I want to use plain white or coloured, or patterned, or coloured with patterns.

I’m sure if you’re reading this you know the exact same frustration. Just make me giggle that these litte quirks are more widespread than I thought!

i didn’t leave it in the oven for 30mins, instead i did, 15, then 10 more. at the 15, it was still gooey, but then the extra 10 browned the top of the cream cheese topping, which i think i should have done 5 mins instead.

also i should have filled the cups less, and not let it over flow as much.

They’re going to make a movie about you, kind of like “Julia and Julia,” when someone attempts to make all of your recipes in the course of a year.

These look divine.

You are so welcome to come to BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA anytime you want! We have Pastry Art (www.pastryartcakes.com), Edgar’s Bakery (www.edgarbakery.com), Dream Cakes (www.dreamcakes-bakery.com), Magic Muffin (www.magicmuffinsonline.com), and Savage’s Bakery. You would love it here! Not to mention there’s a fantastic Barnes and Noble at the hopping Summit shopping center where you could do a signing. We’ll even host you in our apartment if you’ll just come! = ) Have a lovely day!

I have to admit, as soon as I opened this email my 3 year old daughter and I said “yummy, lets make these” and we did and of course they are delicious!
I did not have enough cream cheese so I cut the recipe in half and it still made 11 cupcakes. I may have put in the full portion of vanilla in the cream cheese mixture though becuase they came out very sweet.
Assuming that is just the way they are, do you have any suggestions on how I can cut the sweetness a bit? I want to make these for my son’s 1st birthday- monkey party so the the banana flavour is perfect! Thanks

I made these but tweeked them just a bit. I used the new chocolate cream cheese instead of regular and then didn’t use the cocoa powder in the chocolate mixture. Mine were more like black top cupcakes since the chocolate was now on the top. They turned out pretty good but I think I need to do a little more tweeking to make it perfect with the chocolate cream cheese!

Gah! I’m so excited to try these. I’m constantly scouring for new banana recipes, as they are my favourite, and this is perfect. Chocolate, cream cheese, more chocolate and bananas, how can you go wrong?